Curriculum Vitae

Dr.Heike Hennig-Schmidt

Laboratory of Experimental Economics University

of Bonn,Adenauerallee 24-42, D-53113 Bonn

Tel.: +49+228+73-9195,

Fax: +49+228+73-9193

e-mail: hschmidt@uni-bonn.de

URL: www.bonneconlab.uni-bonn.de/

Degrees
1998  Doctoral degree: Dr. rer. pol, University of Bonn, Germany; PhD-Thesis “Bargaining in a Video Experiment – Determinants of Boundedly Rational Behavior”; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten
1968  Diploma in Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany

Positions held 
 since 2000 Head of Laboratory of Experimental Economics, Bonn University
 since 1998 Research Associate (comparable to Assistant Professor Position), Economics Department, Bonn University
 1985 - 1999 Research Assistant at Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) 303 Information and Allocation of        Economic Activities”, University of Bonn,Germany;Managing Assistant of the Collaborative Research Centre
1980 - 1984 Research Assistant at the Collaborative Research Centre 21 Economic Forecast and Equilibrium Models”, University of      Bonn, Germany

Research Interests
Theories of bounded rationality, experimental economics, experimental methods, bargaining ex-periments, video experiments, fairness, justice and equity, cross-cultural experiments, impact of emotions on decision making, group decision making, framing and presentation effects, content analysis

Publications
Books 
Hennig-Schmidt, H. (1999): Bargaining in a Video Experiment - Determinants of Boundedly Rational Behavior. Lecture Notes in

   Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 467, Springer-Verlag Berlin - Heidelberg - New York.

Articles in refereed journals
       Bosman, R., H. Hennig-Schmidt and F. van Winden (2006): Exploring Group Decision Making in a Power-to-Take Experiment, Experimental Economics, 9 (1), 35 – 51.
       Hennig-Schmidt, H., Zhu-Yu Li and Ch. Yang(2005): Why People Reject Advantageous Offers - Non-monotone Strategies in Ultimatum Bargaining, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
       Abbink, K. and H. Hennig-Schmidt (2005): Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment, Experimental Economics, forthcoming. Hennig-Schmidt, H. and Zhu-Yu Li (2001): Video Experiments - A New Method in Experimental Economics. Forecasting, 20(7), 116-118 (in Chinese).
       Hennig-Schmidt, H., Zhu-Yu Li, Wanbo Lu, und Chaoliang Yang (2001): Concession Behavior in Negotiations: A Bargaining Experiment, Chinese Journal of Management Science, 9, 351355 (in Chinese with English Abstract).

Articles in books
       Hennig-Schmidt, H. and H. Geng (2005): über Emotionen und Klugheit in impliziten Verhandlungen - Eine experimentelle Untersuchung anhand des Power-to-take Spiels, in Scherzberg et al. (eds.): Kluges Entscheiden, Disziplinare Grundlagen und interdisziplinare Verknüpfungen, Schriftenreihe Neue Staatswissenschaften“, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, forthcoming.
       Hennig-Schmidt, H. (2002): The Impact of Fairness on Decision Making –An Analysis of Different Video Experiments, in: F. Andersson and H. Holm (eds.), Experimental Economics: Financial Markets, Auctions, and Decision Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Dordrecht, London, 185-210.

Other publications
       Hennig-Schmidt, H., Zhu-Yu Li and Chaoliang Yang (2002): Non-Monotone Strategies in Ultimatum Bargaining: First Results from a Video Experiment in the People’s Republic of China, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians Game Theory and Applications Satellite Conference, Qingdao Publishing House, 225-231.
       Hennig-Schmidt, H., Z.Y. Li and Ch. Yang (2002): Does Power Influence Bargaining Outcomes? A Video Experimental Study in Germany and the People’s Republic of China, In: Conference Proceedings of IAREP/SABE 2002, XXVII. Annual Colloquium on Research in Economic Psychology and SABE 2002 Conference On Behavioural Economics "Stability and Dynamics of Power", Turku, Finland, 30th June – 4th July, 2002, 161 – 167.
       Hennig-Schmidt, H. (2002): The Impact of Trans-national Academic Education and Research on European Integration – Two Examples of Europeanization, in: "EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme – Programme Report (1997-2001)", Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 2002.
Discussion Papers
Decision Mechanisms in Tacit Bargaining - A Video Experimental Investigation on the Power-to-take Game (joint work with Hong Geng), Working Paper, Bonn University, 2005
Neutral versus Loaded Instructions in a Bribery Experiment, Bonn Graduate School of Econom-ics, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper No. 23/2002/2005 (joint work with Klaus Ab-bink), 2005
Why People Reject Advantageous Offers - Non-monotone Strategies in Ultimatum Bargaining, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 22/2004/2005, University of Bonn, (joint work with Zhu-Yu Li and Ch. Yang), 2005
In Search of Workers' Real Effort Reciprocity – A Field and a Laboratory Experiment (joint work with Bettina Rockenbach and Abdolkarim Sadrieh), SFB/Transregio-15 Discussion Paper Series No. 55/2005, University of Mannheim/University of Bonn, 2005
Asymmetric outside options in ultimatum games – An experimental study (joint work with Simone Kohnz), mimeo, University of Bonn, 2005
Experimenting over a Long Distance - A method to facilitate intercultural experiments, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper No. 17/2004/2005 (joint work with Gari Walkowitz and Clemens Oberhammer), 2005
Causes and Implications of Cooperative Attitudes in Prisoner’s Dilemma Games, Department of Business, University of Graz, Report No. 05/2004 (joint work with Thomas Brenner, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, Martin Nussbaumer and Martin Schneider)
Incomplete and Asymmetric Surplus Information in Labor Relations, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper No. 24/2003 (joint work with Bettina Rockenbach and Abdolkarim Sadrieh), 2003
Structure and Purpose of Data Archives in EU Member States as a Basis for Effective Economic Policy Making – A Comparative Study of the EU Data Archive System and Re-commendations for Chinese Data Archive Establishment; European Studies Forum, No. 2, 16-35, Center for European Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China, (joint work with Zhu Yu Li), 2000
How to Run Video Experiments –A New Method in Experimental Economics; European Studies Forum, No. 2, 36-40, Center for European Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China, (joint work with Zhu Yu Li), 2000
Break-offs in Bargaining – Evidence from a Video Experiment; SFB 303, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper B-402, 1997
Equity, Fairness and Prominence - Determinants for the Behaviour of Player Groups in a Bar-gaining Experiment; SFB 303, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper B-356e, 1996.
Behavior of Groups as Players in a Bargaining Experiment. Some Results on Negotiation Proc-esses from a Video Experiment; SFB 303, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper B-355, 1996.
Wie verhalten sich Spielergruppen in einem Verhandlungsexperiment Einige Ergebnisse zur Bildung von Anspruchsniveaus und Anspruchsanpassung; SFB 303, University Bonn, Dis-cussion Paper B-356, 1996.
Family Expenditure Survey - Methodology and Data Used in Microeconomic Demand Analysis; SFB 303, University of Bonn, Discussion Paper A-231, 1989.
Papers in Progress
On Power in Bargaining, Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Bonn (2005)
Bargaining in Symmetric and Asymmetric Ultimatum Games, (joint work with Hong Geng, Zhu-Yu Li and Gari Walkowitz) University of Bonn, mimeo, 2004.
Belief Learning in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game – An Experimental Study of Cognitive Proc-esses, mimeo (joint work with Thomas Brenner), 2003
A Cross-Cultural Study on Negotiation Behavior - A Video Experimental Investigation in Ger-many and the People’s Republic of China, Working Paper, Department of Economics, Uni-versity of Bonn (joint work with Zhu-Yu Li and Chaoliang Yang), 2002

Other papers
Academic Education and Research – Constituents of Integration in Europe - Two Examples of Europeanisation, Paper presented at the EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Pro-gramme Conference on “New Trends and Perspective of European Studies” July 10 –13, 2001, Beijing, PR China, mimeo, University of Bonn (2001).
A Cross-cultural Study on Negotiation Behavior - Design and First Results of a Video Experi-ment Run in Germany and the People’s Republic of China. Center for European Studies, Si-chuan University, (joint work with Zhu-Yu Li and Chaoliang Yang), 2000

Transcripts of Video Experiments
A Video Experiment on Symmetric and Asymmetric Ultimatum Games Run in Germany – Tran-scripts. Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 3.2004 (joint work with Chaoliang Yang)
A Video Experiment on the Ultimatum Game Run in the People’s Republic of China – Tran-scripts. Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 2.2003 (joint work Zhu-Yu Li, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China, and Chaoliang Yang, Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Bonn)
A Bargaining Video Experiment Run in the People’s Republic of China – Transcripts. Labora-tory of Experimental Economics, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 1.2002 (joint work Zhu-Yu Li, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China, and Chaoliang Yang, Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Bonn)
A Video Experiment on the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game – Transcripts. Laboratory of Experimen-tal Economics, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 1.2001 (joint work with Thomas Brenner, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Sys-tems, Jena)
A Video Experiment on the Power-to-Take Game – Transcripts. Laboratory of Experimental Economics, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 1.2000 (joint work with Ronald Bosman and Frans van Winden, CREED, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
The Tripled Take Game - Textprotocols of a Video Experiment. Sonderforschungsbereich 303, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 6.99, 1999 (joint work with Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Magdeburg University)
Bargaining between Groups as Players - Textprotocols of a Video Experiment. Sonderfor-schungsbereich 303, University of Bonn, Experimental Data Documentation Series No. 1.96, 1996

Work in Progress

A cross-cultural study on fairness, equity and aspiration adaptation theory in Germany and the People’s Republic of China
Bargaining in symmetric and asymmetric ultimatum games
High and low stakes in a power-to-take experiment played in the People's Republic of China (joint work with Ronald Bosman, Frans van Winden, and Chaoliang Yang,)
Framing and free riding (joint work with Martin Dufwenberg and Simon Gachter)
Presentation effects in symmetric and asymmetric dilemma game experiments (joint work with Martin Beckenkamp and Frank Meyer-Rigaud)
The tripled take game (joint work with Abdolkarim Sadrieh)
High and low stakes in alternating offer bargaining experiments

Project principal in academic projects with external funding
2003-2006 “Aquitat und Gerechtigkeit in okonomischen Entscheidungen – Experimentelle Stu-dien zur Anspruchsanpassungstheorie in Deutschland und China“, University of Bonn, Germany, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2001-2004 “A Comparative Study on Treating Data Uncertainty in Economic Modelling” sup-ported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), (jointly with Zhu-Yu Li, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China)

Affiliation to academic projects with external funding
2004-2006 Project Collaborator, “A Cross-Cultural Experimental Study on Interactive Deci-sion-Making Involving Germans, Israelis and Palestinians” University of Bonn, Germany, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2004- 2008 Project Collaborator, Collaborative Research Centre (Transregio/Sonderforschungs-bereich) Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems”, University of Bonn, Germany, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2000-2001 Project Collaborator, “A Study on Unsymmetrical Employment and the Unbalance of the EU Labour Market in Relation to Higher Education,” supported by EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme.
1999-2003 Project Collaborator, “European Network for the Development of Experimental Economics and its Application to Research on Institutions and Individual Decision Making”, supported by EU-TMR Research Network.
1999-2000 Project Collaborator, “The Impact of Different Policies in EU Member States on Re-search in Economics—the Difficulty of Getting Access to Official Micro Data and Its Reference to China,” supported by EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Pro-gramme.
1985-1999 Project Collaborator, Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) 303 Information and Allocation of Economic Activities”, University of Bonn, Germany, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1980-1984 Project Collaborator, Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) 21 Economic Forecast and Equilibrium Models” University of Bonn, Germany, sup-ported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Research Grants
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (446 CHV-111/1/00) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (446 CHV 113/174/0-1) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HE 2790/2-1, 2-2)

Membership
American Economic Association Economic Science Association (ESA) Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GEW) International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP)

Referee for
American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Presentations at International Conferences
2006 - Tagung des für Socialpolitik, Beyreuth
-ESA Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting, Hong Kong,
2005 - Third International Symposium on Corporate Governance, Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China

- Tagung des Sozialwissenschaftlichen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Graz, Austria

-Erste Staatswissenschaftliche Tagung Kluges Entscheiden“, University Erfurt

- Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GEW), Co-logne, Germany

- 11th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Krakow, Poland

2004 - Tagung des Sozialwissenschaftlichen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Graz, Austria

- International Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, The Nether-lands

- Sixth International Conference on Logic and Methodology, Amsterdam, The Nether-lands

- Games 2004, 2nd World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille, France

- Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA), Madrid, Spain

- Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GEW), Prag, Czech Republic

- International Workshop on Experimental Economics and it’s Application to Inter-cultural Research, Chengdu, China

- North American Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Tucson, USA

2003 - European Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Erfurt, Germany

- 10th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Marstrand, Sweden

- Summer Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Budapest, Hungary

- ENDEAR-Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2002 - European Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Strasbourg, France

- ENDEAR-Workshop “Experimental Economics” Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany

- Summer School Workshop on Experimental Economics, Max Planck Institute for Re-search into Economic Systems, Jena, Germany

- International Congress of Mathematicians Game Theory and Applications Satellite Conference, Qingdao, PR China

- IAREP/SABE 2002, XXVII. Annual Colloquium on Research in Economic Psychology and SABE 2002 Conference, Turku, Finland

- Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GEW), Luther-stadt-Wittenberg, Germany

- Amsterdam Workshop on "Group Decision Making in Economics", The Netherlands 2001 - International Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Barcelona, Spain

- International Workshop on “Education and Employment in a Cross-Cultural Context of EU”, Centre for European Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China

- International Workshop on “New Trends and Perspective of European Studies”, EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme, Beijing, PR China

- ENDEAR-Workshop "Experimental Economics: State of the Art and Future Perspec-tives", Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 2000 - IAREP/SABE 2000, XXV. Annual Colloquium on Research in Economic Psychology and SABE 2000 Conference, Baden, Vienna, Austria

- Annual Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA), Amsterdam, The Nether-lands

- Annual Workshop of ENDEAR, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

- 20. Arne Ryde Symposium on Experimental Economics, Lund, Sweden

- Workshop Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung“, Burg Warberg, Germany 1998 - Conference Decision Making in Theory and Practice“, University College, Oxford,U.K.

- Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA), Berlin, Germany

- Annual Meeting of the Economic Science Association (ESA), Mannheim, Germany

- Workshop on Bargaining Behavior, Europa-University, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

- Workshop Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung“, Meien, Germany 1997 - 67. Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik, Bern, Switzerland

- Workshop Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung“, Rauischholzhausen, Germany

- 12. Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Toulouse, France

- Sixth Amsterdam Workshop on Experimental Economics (AWEE ‘97), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996 - Workshop zur Experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung, Humboldt- University of Berlin, Germany -

-Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik, Kassel, Germany

- XXIst Annual Conference of IAREP, International Association for Research in Eco-nomic Psychology, Paris, France

- Eleventh Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Istanbul, Turkey 1995 - Workshop Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung“, Rauischholzhausen,Germany

- Conference Struktur von Prozessen der Entscheidungsfindung; experimentelle Befun-de“, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany

1992 - Joint Conference on Economic Psychology and Experimental Economics; International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) and Gesellschaft für Ex-perimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GEW), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Seminar Presentations
Business Investment Research Center, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Center for Adap-tive Behavior and Cognition, Max-Planck-Institute for "Human Development", Berlin; Centre for European Studies, CREED, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Humboldt- Univer-sity of Berlin, Germany; Management School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China; Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Jena; Max-Planck-Institute “Research on Collective Goods”, Bonn; Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China; RUTCOR, Rut-gers University, New Brunswick, USA; Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China; University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; University of Bonn, Germany; University of Cologne, Germany; Uni-versity of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Karlsruhe, Germany; University of Magdeburg, Germany; Verein für Socialpolitik, Sozialwis-senschaftlicher Ausschuss; Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Studies) Berlin; Work-shop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Research Visits
Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China (September 2004, November 2005) Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Management, Shanghai, PR China (November 1999, March/April 2000) Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China (March and July 1999, March/April 2000, July 2001, August/September 2002, September 2004, January/February 2006, May 2006) Southwest Jiao Tong University, School of Management and Economics, Chengdu, PR China (May 2006) University of Magdeburg (December 2005)
Teaching
SS 2005 - Seminar “ Gruppenexperimente - Design, Durchführung, Auswertung ”, University
Bonn WS 2004/2005 - Seminar “Experimentelle Gruppenentscheidungen”, University Bonn 2000 - Course on research methodology in economics and classroom experiments (March
2000), Management School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China; Course on Experimental Economics and Classroom Experiments, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China (April 2000)
1999 - 2nd week of ENDEAR-Summer School on Experimental Economics (September 1999), Bari, Italy

Conference Organization
Co-organizer of International Workshop on “Experimental Economics and it’s Application to In-ter-cultural Research”, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China, September 17, 2004. Co-organizer of “Special Session on Group Decision Making”, ENDEAR Workshop (together with Tamar Kugler), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003 Co-organizer of "Workshop on Group Decision Making in Economics" (together with Ronald Bosman), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002
Co-organizer of “International Workshop on Education and Employment in the Multi-Cultural Context of EU”, July 2-7, 2001, Center for European Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu PR China. Sponsored by EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme (together with Prof. Dr. Jian Shi, Center for European Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, PR China, and Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt, Center for European Integration ZEI, University of Bonn, Germany)